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THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Extradsfrem the Morning Papers,Marchl7, l B 26 . rum TIMESd Our account from the city is any thing but sciiisfactory. It is now, we believe, clear, that under whatever veil the financial transactions of the year may be shrouded, they are essentially a 1044; and to this state of things we are arrived later upwards of eleven years of peace. In truth, t/1 Circumstance that this loan is to be effected by manamvre and chicane will but give the con tractors a greater advantage in the negociation of it ; as those who borrow money surreptitiously are always obliged to submit to usurious interest. The ordinary proceeding of the monied interest Mt the approaching crisis of a loan are detailed in oar city article. Alas ! poor England ! The French Papers of Tuesday arrived last nigbt : The only important passage of their con tents is the description of the perturbed state of, Spain. However ignorant and degraded the mass of the Spanish population may be, and how ever fitted to the yoke of a cruel and perfidious trout, no rational person could ever doubt but that the repeated acts of mismanagement and se verity, which have spread desolation over a fine country, have ruined , its manufactures and corn. flume, and made almost every other house a . lumen of mourning, must tend to produce dis• content, and a consequent desire of change. The day of retribution is, we think, beginning to dawn: and though we believe the account of the arrival of Mina is premature, it is pleasing to observe the terror which the bare name of the gallant and energetic chief strikes into the heart of the guilty Court and Ministry of Madrid.— ( [BRITISH PR ES3.] Upon the motion of the Chancellor of the Ex chequer in the House of Commons het night a Select Co►nrnittee ,was appointed, after a slight discussion, to inquire into the state of the circu lation in small t►otes in Ireland and Scotland. In the course of the evening Mr. Wynn obtained leave to bring in a Bill to amend 53d Geo. 111., respecting the appointment of writers in the ser vice of the East India Company, and to remove doubts us to the payment of the allowances of officers dying while absent from India. The oc casion for this measure has arisen from the neces thy of sending out a supply of young men as writers in the Company's service. By the old law it was c►►mpulsory tl►nt three-fourths of these officers of the Company should be sent from the East India College. The object of the new Bill is to ►educe that number, and to allow a larger portion of young men who have received only a general education to till the vacant writerships, which amount now to ninety. [MORNING 11E0 ALOI Yew people are inclined to give themselves much trouble for nothing. On the contrary, most men's actions are the result either of Selfish mo tives, of anibitious ones (which is only a higher degree of selfishness), or are undertaken with the more ctiounentlable view of serving their fa- Milies•or connections. It was stated in our paper fete days ago that as active a canvass was going on to till the vacancies in some parish vestry as if the object were equal to a seat in Parlia ment. And this we believe is the case, more or less, not only in most of the parishes of the Metropolis, but in , whatever part of the kingdom those- fruitful sources of power, of jobbing„ and a buse- . ---tielect Vestries (unfor tAinately for the parishioners) exist. The very eagerness which people show to get upon them,' is sufficient to excite not only surprise but sus picion ; and Ihe wore so when we perceive how utterly destitute of utility, and what grievous sources of oppressive taxation, most of these Dog. berry Legislatures are become. Formerly the duties of a parish officer were what people dhi every thing in their power to avoid. Exemptions were claimed, excuses made, and, in some cases, even heavy fines -paid, to avoid sit odious and troublesome an employment. Awl we are, therefore,. the. more curious to know what change has taken place which can, in the fair ntitur of things account for Ova becoming an object of desire, of canvass, and solicitation, which was heretofore one of aversion and avoid. ance. The love of power, we well know, has an all..pervading influence; ,but we suspect there roust be something beyond this, which renders a seat At these Boards an object of such very gene. ral attainment. This motive, we strongly SUN. pact, is to 1w found in the revenues over which those people preside. That large'imms of money. can'be raised and expended without check or con trool, and not be the source of divers good things to those who have the tnana gement of them, would be to suppose a degree of virtue among these people which experience tells us has too often not been found among their betters. If we err in thi4.,coojeitere, let Parliament interfere, and elicit the truth. While men are auditors of their own .accounts, and render no account to any but to a - select'Jnota of • themselves, suspicions will arise, which nothing but an opposite degree of openness, candour, find fait dealing, can p oss ibly . Let them show the rate-payers, if they cart e that all right—that there are do jobs, no Vontracts, no snug clerkships, surveyor Ships, or feasting, of which these worthy gentlemen par. take. When this is shown intelligibly, in black . and white, we shell believe it ; and shall then too he convinced thal it iil only the hmiour of the beadle's bow, the mania for talki6g, and the . satisfaction of strutting 'over pavement of their dijApiduting, and of going tinkle deep in mud of t h e ir own creating, Unit induce so many p eo pl e to q uit the comfort of 'their own fire.sides, to be come—Parish Vestry Ten. istortNtso cititoNict.E.l Scarcely a day p a sses without utrorditig some evidence ,of the ignorance of our Legislators, and that, too as to their own Acts. On Wednesday flight a discussion took place on Sir It. WilSoll's 'notion for :: a ; return of dinner expettces incurred 'Htittr Country Commissioners of Bankruptcy, when Mr. Banks, jun. (himself a Commissioner) said, " he thought that the Act passed last Ses. sion of Parliament provided a sufficient remedy for the evil complained of." In consequence of this representation, it was suggested that the returns should be limited from the first of Sep tember last, when that Act came into operation. / Now the prohibition created by 5 Geo. 11. 3.42, which enacts that any Commissioner eating or drinking at the expence of the bankrupt's estate, or ordering such expenses to be made, shall be disabled for ever from acting in such, or any other commission ; so much is copied in the Consolidation Act ; but in amending the law, the words, " or other persons" have been omitted,- so that though the Commissioners may not eat or drink at the cost of the Estate, the Solicitors, Clerks, Assignees, and Accountants may. See ing how negligently our laws are made, can we wonder that they are not better enforced ? The Returns are ordered from the Ist of May,lB2s,by which means the Inquiry is defeated, for these ex pences can only be ascertained at the audit from the t Assi4nees' accounts, and Solicitors' bills of costs. Now the May expellees may not have been audit ed till December (it' then), consequently all will escape except those whose roalversations have been recorded within the last two month... It is 'due'to the London Commissioners to state, that these and many other complaints are confined to the .country practice, which practice, though flagrantly objectionable, the Chancery Report does not propose to amend. [MORNING POST.] In the House of Commonx _list night, the Chancellor of the Exchequer moved that a Se lect Committee be appointed to inquire into the state of the circulation of notes' under the value of 51. in Ireland and Scotland ; and to report their observations and opinions , thereon to the !louse, particularly with reference to the expe• diency of applying to those countries, the Mea sure now proposed to be adopted. in England. Nothing can be more reasonable, satisfactory, or just than the grounds upon which thejtight lion. Gentleman proceeds in this respect. netted already expressed a confident opinion that it would ,be in convenient to have the currency of Ireland and Scotland subject to principles different from those by which the currency of England was to be re gulated. From that opinion he did not now withdraw ; but nevertheless there might be cit.- CUMStaIICNS connected both with Ireland and Scotland, and more Particularly with Scotland, which would render their principle less appli cable to those countries than to England. As there were some differences in circumstances be. t w een England and Scotland, and as in the latter country a very strong feeling prevailed against any alteration . of the system of its cur rency, he thought the wisest way would be to set the question at rest by a full, free, and unre served investigationoluring the progress of which the persons who thought themselves in te rested might have sufficient opportunity of being heard.!-- After a short conversation, the motion was put and carried. Mr. Wynn obtained leave to bring in a Bill to sus pend the Act of 53 Geo. 1I I. so far as it re lated to the appointment of Writers to the East Indies, and to remove doubts as to the legality of paying the allowances of Officers, Civil and Military, dying, during their absence from India. This measure was rendered necessary from the "adequacy of the College at present to furnish number of young men which the extension of our territory, and the increased number of states which had become subsidiary to us, now indis pensably required.—Upon the motion for the second reading of the Bill for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, an amendment was moved and carried without a division, that the Bill be read a second time that day six months. The Bill was of course lost. In the [louse of Lords the Promissory Notes Bill was read a third time and passed, after the rejection of a proposed ad ditional clause by Earl Grosvenor. [THE PUBLIC LEDOEII.I A Turkey mail arrived yesterday, bringing letters from Constantinople to the nth ult. Great preparations were making to improve the advantages already achieved over the Greeks ; and besides a large body of troops, destined to join Retischid Pasha, another corps was to pro ceed to t h e further extremity of the Gulph in order to disperse the bands which Goura and other Greek Leaders had collected in that direc tion. It was intended, it is said, that this corps should afterwards enter the Morea by the Isthmus of Corinth. A considerable naval force was also preparing to reinforce the Captain Pasha ; and, if the Porte can but give effect to all these demonstrations, there is much reason to fear that this will be the last year of this pro tracted and sanguinary struggle. The letters ►bound with contradictory speculations on the mission of the two Turkish Plenipotentiaries sent to the Mores. According to one they are sent to negotiate with the Greeks, and accord ing to another to receive the submission of that People. A third statement says that their only object is to organize the administration of the country, which is considered by the Porte as all but conquered ; and, lastly, they are said to have been appointed for no other purpose but to confer with Ibrahim Pachn, as to the terms by which he is to hold the Government of Greece, as Lieutenant to the Sultan. From the contra dictory character of these several rumours, it is pretty evident that not one of them is derived from an authentic source. The Porte, barbarous as it is in its policy, is as refined as any other Power in the art of hiding its proceedings; and its intentions are seldom discovered, us Wog as it sees a necessity for keeping them secret. [THE REPRESENTATIVE.] We were sorry to perceive at one of the Police Offices, some resurrection mien brought up for carryinfc on their disgusting trade. NVc are quite aware of every thing that can be said against the practiee, anti knew very well that there is no arguing against the muurni feeling which it must e xcite ve.t, I en it Conies close to any of our own i n., dividual cases. But barring this , we wish that people would look at the business with • the eyes of common sense. Feelings for the dead are to be respected, but not, we submit, to the injury of the living. Medi cine cannot be studied without anatomy ; and anatomy cannot be carried on without sub jects. Where are they to come from/ We have no wish that the laws against the stealing of dead bodies should be repealed ; we only de sire that there should not be any activity in putting them in execution. The odious trade of a resurrection-man will never become gene ral, and we should have no objection to leaving the guardianship of the dead from their ra vages to the surveying relatives. If the feelings of friends be not outraged, no harm in any point of view is done, for we certainly shall not argue with those who fancy that any outrage is com mitted on the lifeless carcase. An over zeal against the practice has done the University of Edinburgh an injury from which it will hardly recover. As a practical school for surgical in struction, that celebrated seminary is now almost useless. This consummation is clearly not to be wished for ; we hope in this respect we shall not imitate our northern neighbours. We must say, that we think Mr. Minshull, in his decision on the individual case which has drawn from us these reflections, was more angry than was needful._ [NEW TIMES.] CITY Porxrics.—lt was a good old rule, in City Politics, to 44 start fair," and not to begin canvassing till the Parliament was dissolved. Why - or'wherefore this good rule has been set at nought, in the present instance—Why or where fore the City has been so soon disturbed with can vassing and circulars, and paragraphing, and speechifying, let Alderman Wood inform us ; for he it was that began this premature contest, by cir culating an address to the Common Council. Peo. ple do say, that the worthy Alderman's activity is owing to certain misgivings that he has about the waning of his popularity. Ilowever, he needs not despair : he is better off than Wuithman yet. — Poor Robert !—Frotn the moment he heard the word 44 election," he could not sleep in his bed. lle must be a candidate ! Really, we pity him. We are amongst his very best friends,and if he had listened to us and retired in decent time from public concerns, his life would have been worth lO years more purchase than it is at this present writing. The Lord Mayor, Venables, is to summon his forces to-day at the Mansion-house. Last Tues day fortnight he declared himself a candidate for the high honour of representing the City of London in Parliament. His speech hit poor Waithman very hard. " If the Citizens of London want a rash, daring, thick and thin poll tian," said Mr. Venables, 44 then, unquestion ably, lam not the man." The fact, we under stand, is, that the more respectable part of the Waithmanites have long entertained this feeling. They have had enough of rash, daring, thick and thin politicians. They are ashamed of their old leader, and in looking about for a new one, they have turned their thoughts to Queenhithe. Mr. Oldham has the reputatiou of having first raised the standard of revolt ; but Fa vell and Ilurcomhe still fight under the old Bandana flag. The great hitch with this party has al ways been the subscriptions. They could not get on well in money matters, in their very hest days; and now, that the party is split, their Fitton CPS, we fear, are a complete Sinking Fund ! The best thing that Alderman Waithman could do, would be to retire gracefully from the scene. Let him,- for instance, attend the Man sion House to-day, declare off in a pathetic speech, and propose his friend, the Lord Mayor, his place. It would have a good effect. JltGtt TREASON.---One (lay, as Madame de POMPADOUn had finished dressing, M. de NOAIL. LES asked to speak to her in private. I accord ingly retired. The Count looked full of import ant business. I heard their conversation, us there was only the door between us, " A circumstance has taken place," said he, 44 which I think it my duty to communicate to the King ; but I would not do so without first informing you of it, since it concerns one of your friends, for whom I have the utmost regard and respect. The Abbe tie Bemis (then Minister) had a mind to shoot•this morning, and went with two or three of his people, armed with guns, into the little park, where the Dauphin, would not venture to shoot without asking the King's permission.— The guards, surprised at hearing the report of guns, ran to the spot, and were greatly astonished nt the sight of M. de Bends.— They very respectfully asked to see his permis sion, when they found, to their astonishment, that he had none. They begged him to desist, tell ing him, that if they did their duty, they should arrest him ; but they must, at all events, instantly acquaint him with the circumstance, RS R an . ger of the Pork at Versailles. They added, that the King must have heard the firing, and that they begged of him to retire. The Abbe apologized, on the score of ignorance, and as. sured them that he 'had my permission. The Count de Noailies; said they could only g r a n t permission to shoot in the remote party, and in the great park.' " The Count made a gr ea t g ive the earliest infor mation to Madame. She told him to leave th e task of communicating it to the King to her, and begged of him to say 4iothing about the matter. M. de Mnrigny, who did not like the Abbe, come to see me in the evening, and I affected t o know nothing of this story, and to hear it for the first time from him. •' Ile must have been out of his senses," said he, " to shoot under the King's windows,"—and enlarged much on the airs he gave himself. Madame de Pompadour gave this affair the best colouring she could ; the King was, nevertheless, gr ea tly disgusted at it, and twenty times since the Abb e 's disgrace, when he passed over that part of the park, he said, " this is where the Abbe took his pleasure." —(Memoirs of Ma dame du Hausleo There is now living in the Isle of Wight a woman named Rebecca White, who has reached her 104th year, and has 170 grand-children. COMMON COUNCIL. A Court of Common Council was held yesterday at Guild hall, for the general dispatch of public business. The Loup MAYOR took the Chair shortly after 12 o'clock. After the Minutes of the last Court were read— His Lordship informed the Court that a vacancy had occurred in the office of the Collector of the City's Duties of Groundage of Colliers anti Water Bailage on Coals in the Port of London, by the death of Mr. John Reed. Three petitions from candidates praying to be elected thereto were read, and ordered to lie on the table. The Committee of City Lands presented a report, stating, that on the vacancy occurring, they appointed Mr. Pearsall to collect the dues, that no impediment to the public business Might arise. The Court agreeed with the retort, and sealed a deputation to Mr. Pearsall to perform the duties during pleasure ; and re ferred it to the committee to inquire into the nature and duties of the office, and to consider of the terms and restrictions on which it should be held. The same Committee delivered in a report, on havinc , pro vided a press for the purpose of sealing deeds and other 'docu ments, with the city's seal, and stating that Mr. Galloway, who provided the same, delined accepting any remuneration for it, but requested the Corporation to accept thereof. The thanks of the Court were unanimously voted to Mr. Gal loway for his donation, and ordered an inscription thereof to be inlaid on the press or table. The Court agreed to purchase three houses in Long - lane , towards completing the improvements there. The Committee of City bands presented reports for subscrib ing 501. towards an dmprovement in Greenwich-street, Upper Thames-street;. and 100/. towards widening and improving Brick-hill-lane there, which were agreed to. The Coal and Corn Committee delivered in a detailed report, on having investigated the petition of Mr. Bradfield, complain ing of sundry abuses in the coal-trade, which was read and agreed to. The Lonn MAYOR declared a vacancy in the office of col lector of the poultry market at Leadenhall, and it was referred to the Committee of City Lands to recommend a proper per. son to be appointed to perform those duties. The Court broke up at an early hour. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. IlzaltwaY ROllBEitY.—Yesterday Peter Naden and Wil liam Leach, the two men charged with a highway robbery upon Mr. John Moulton, a farmer, at Priem Barnet, as described in our Paper of Tuesday last, were brought before Sir It. Birnie, for final examination. It will be recollected, that, at the first examination, the pri toms protested their total innocence of the robbery, and de clared that the prosecutor, whom they confessed having seen at the Orange Tree public-house, was very drunk. The charge was of so serious a complexion, that the Chief Magistrate felt it to be his duty to have the strictest inquiry instituted into all the circumstances, and with that view he, on Monday, directed Ledbitter, an active constable of the establishment, to'go down to Colney Hatch, and the neighbourhood, and to lose no pains in ascertaining all that was necessary to the investigation. The prisoners stated, that they slept together at Leach's mother's on the night of the robbery. This Ledbitter ascertained to be false ; and he also procured the following evidence, in corroboration of the testimony of the prosecutor : Lorton Ely, a carpenter, living at Colney Hatch, stated, that on Saturday night last, about a quarter before twelve o'clock, the prosecutor knocked loudly at his door, and called out, " For God's sake let me in ; 1 have been robbed, and nearly murdered by two footpads." The witness let him in, and saw that he was bleeding dreadfully, and in a faint state. He washed and dressed his wounds as well as he could, and assisted hint home. The prosecutor appeared to him to be perfectly sober. Jo!in Jewett, hostler at the Orange Tree, deposed, that he saw the prosecutor at that house on Saturday night last. The two prisoners came in between nine and ten . o'clock, and had a pint of porter. Mr. Moulton had some beef for supper, and drank some porter, but at a very moderate rate. Witness went to bed at a little after ten o'clock, and Mr. Moulton was then "perfectly sober. The prisoners merely repeated, that they were innocent. Leach seemed agitated, and somewhat desponding. Naden, on the contrary seemed perfectly at his ease, and evinced a good deal of levity. The prisoners were fully committed to New gate for trial. Naden 'a father, a decent old man, was present, and it was impossible to observe his extreme grief and anxiety withcut feelings of commiseration. HATTON-GARDEN. FAMILY QUARREL.--Yesterday a very curiouse case came t m t n a t d l e e r thebv an old (i cognizance eerep iodf manthe , ary !' lizabeth, his daughter, A v l e a r g g i i s a t r a t e e n . selvtenwta;yaeacraornepflaaignet t i named ',John Harden, and M against William Turk, husband of he latter complainant, for assault, and battery. It appears that the defendant has lived for some time past in the house of the old man. The daughter about thirteen months since lost her husband, since which event she has lived with her father. She had fallen in with a swain named Trimmer, a few weeks ago, and at length he, by his vows, made a conquest of " the young widow." The day was fixed 'for their " nuptial.." However, such was the " widow's whim," that she transferred her affections from her affianced husband to a more sprightly Adonis, which she discovered in the person of the present de fendant, Turk, who implored her, for the sake of her aged father, as well as the interest of her child (she had a child by her first bus. band), to become Mrs. Turk, and that he would do for her child. By his fair promises to do for her and her child, he induced her to countenance him us her future husband, and every thing was prepared for the wedding, which took place on Monday last, at Spitalfields' Church. After the knot had been tied, the bride and bridegroom, followed by their friends, returned home, where there was a handsome dinner provided. All were seated at the banquet, when the bridegroom began to take liberties with his bride. The latter felt disgusted, and told him there was time for all things, and she should not think of his himperenee before all the etnnpney. Turk felt hurt, and abruptly leaving the festive board, took up his hat, and left the room, saying, " 'Veil, never mind, ma'am, nothing has been done but vat can be undone, and so here goes." Nothing was seen of him till Wker edne dsday,emo when he went to old Harden's house, and with a po lished four or five looking. lasses, all the crockery , a nd several articles of the household furniture, and assaulted both the old man and his daughter, who went to her father's assistance. His excuse for breaking the property was, that he had been to the Minister that had married them and to the Lord Mayor, who told him that all that belonged to his wife before mamage now belonged to him ; and therefore he considered he had a right to do as lie liked with his own property. The wife declared that she would never live with such a rascal, indeed, she did not consider herself his wife, as she had never bedded with hint. Ile had declared he would turn her child out of doors, and she felt satisfied he would make good his promise before marriage, that he would "do tbr her and her child." The old man, who was scarcely able to stand from the beat. ing he had received, declared, that he was in bodily fear, and therefore hoped the Magistrate would hold him to good , bail. The defendant said, that he had been told that it was the in tention of his wife to run away with Trimmer, the man who site had made choice of first, and that he thought he had sufficient cause for what he had done. Ile was immediately held to bail for the two a'saults, and to give 24 hours' notice. CALEDONIAN CANAL.—A Parliamentary paper has been just published respecting the Caleclonial Canal. It is a list of the claims for compensation in consequence of dama es sustained by the cutting of the Canal. We extract two ; the first, because such fair and honourable conduct ought never to pass unnoticed—it is that of John Baillie, Esq. M.P. Mr. Baillie's estimated damages is 051. per annum ; he adds, " The compensation for which, at twenty years' purchase, amounts to 1,7001., but as this property was acquired by the a claimant for price amounting only to fifteen years' purchase of the annual rent, he cannot conscientiously claim a higher rate of cotnpensation, and according limits his demand to the sum of 1,275/." The other is a claim Of Glengarry, for n a med Loch Oich. We give ins own de- Ili bland lake, scription of it. The Lock covers a surface of four miles in length, anti varies from a quarter to the 10th part of a mile.— For this, Glempury requires only 20,0001. We mistake. lie has already a suit before the Court of Session, for compensation for all that part of the Lock, which has been hitherto occupied for the Canal, and we conclude, that, in a lake only about 300 yards broad, on an average, no small proportion of it has been so occup i e d. We shall, therefore, we conceive, make a pretty ample allowance, when we calculate the surface for which Government -lit to T 4.20001., at four hundred English acres, which, rat i ng the proposed purchase at twenty years, l ives only t he moderate rent of 11 . ss , per acre. We have often hearth the Highlands celebrated for the number of its lakes, and we have sometimes heard of the clearness of their waters, but we never before had a notion that they were so valuable to the pro. prietors, LAW of LANDLORD and TENANT. A Bill of very great importance to Ireland has just been printed. It must be known to our readers, that, according to the law as it at pre sent stands, if A let a farm to 13, and if B let portions of it to C, D, E, F, not only has A re• course upon B for the whole rent, but failing B, he may seize the stock and goods of C, I), notwithstanding that each and all of them may have previously paid the rent of their respective portions to B. Now this state of law, which may be very little felt where the practice of sub. letting of land is only partial, or when the su perior and sub-tenants are substantial persons ) is often the cause of great distress in Ireland,where almost all farms are leased by middle-men, for the express purpose of sub-letting, and where the sub-tenants, for the most part, are , ; not farmers, but merely cottiers. By the , Bill above•mentioned, a remedy is proposed to this grievance. In the first place, in •the case °floats', dated previous to the Ist Jane, 1826 (tile lay when it is proposed that the alteration in the law shall commence) that contain n c,tause, forbidding sub-letting, no future act oc;.the landlord, except becoming bona fide a party to the instrument of sub-letting, shall be sufficient 10 set aside that prohibitory clause ; and if any lessee do sub.letr notwithstanding of such prohibitory clause, he shall have no remedy against his subtenant for the rent or occupation of the land. In the se , , cowl place, in the case of leases dated after the Ist June, 1826, which do not contain a clause' expressly authorising the lessee to sub-let, no tenant shall sub-let any part of the ground held by such a lease, unless by express consent of the landlord. Thirdly, subtenants holding land by written consent of the landlord, who have paid their rent to the party sub-letting, shall not be liable to pay a second time to the landlord. — Upon notice duly given, tha sub-tenants, %1 ho have not paid Co the party suit -letting, shall make payment to the landlord, and that pay men shall free them from the claims of the party sen t letting. The principle, in a word, of the Bill, that in case a legal bona fide paym ent by the sub-tenant, shall free him of all demands from the landlord on the one hand, if payment be made to the middleman, and from the middle man on the other, if it be made to the landlord. In digging the foundation of one of the houses which are about to ornament the North end of Huntingdon, near to the premises of Mrs. MAX" , several SKELETONS, and a great variety of 110 10 • SKULLS and other bones, some of them of extra - ordinary dimensions, have been unearthed. The close was, indeed, formerly a church-yard,fo r this spot there flourished, previous to the Herat. mation, a church dedicated to St. Andrew. It would seem, however, from the manner in which the skulls were found, several of them being ; heaped tog ether, and one of the skeleton s having. the face downwards, that the bodies bad°t been interred under the ordinary circumstancry of nature, but thrown into a pit, promiscuouslY9. plague, which also at some period of unusual mortality, In the reign of Edward 111. about the year 1 34 !I Huntingdon was greatly depopulated by the reign of the unfortunate Charles I. Forty persons are marked in St. Mary's Reoter,t as having died of the distemper in tha parish, during August, September, and Octobe.r! prevailed here durin he 1625. As the season of pestilence is mostly to: spring, the latter was properly only a !nai ad " endemic marsh fever, induced by the low 1 swampy lands in our neighbourhood , former ages, whi ch li when the dwellings of the poo r were miserably deficient in comfort, cleanlines9, and ventilation, must have rendered lientifi li : peculiarly liable to pestilential diseas es ' long the church-yard of St. Andrew cont i n ued to he used as a place of burial cannot p e rhaps be 13g " certained. NV hen Leland visited this town oboe year 1530, there were only four churches, but " traces of the walls and yards" of the others r e ' mined. The four existing churches were S t ' John's, demolished in 1658,'5t. llenuet's,t o4.en down about twenty years ago, and the presen t edifices of All Saints and St. itlary'g. Concern* ing St. Andrew's church-yard, the site of " 4)16 is intersected by a brook, one of the worktneli mentioned that a neighbour of his in cleaning out the brook some time since,, had discov er ' ed inside the bank several robins' in the s'kulis. -- (Bury Gazelle.) ASIITON.—We understand that there ar e ro t Less than seventeen mills totally stopped at Itsh ; ton, on account of the spinners having out, in consequence of en attempted reductio n r their wages.—(Manchester Mercuy.) tor ne f The custom of calling for coffee in a P u r b s li t t booth in Turkey is as general, and the practice among people here of calling 'for or spirituous liquors ; with this difference, L!'' Ito the coffee and tobacco of the Turk, produces I) as much exhiliration of spirits for a few penc" 7 . uc i, the Englishman obiains for as mnny freedom from intoxication to boof• A. band of robbers has been IntelY d is r e"er* 1° at Peat, in Hungary who, by their birth, and the situsti2l! they held, belong to'good society. Great order reived in r affairs of this infamous Company. It had a cashier, a W. l l keeper, and the sane with the rest. The value of the priaP e 7 . o stolen, which has been seized in its possess i on , a mounts to t.n.ke than 1.50,000 flo r i ns . S o me Jews were the receivers 0 ,-,Te band. And w h at was t h e motive of those ro bberies ' Passion of play.—(ConstitutitirmeL) MARRIED. . v e rse% On Wednesday, the 15th inst., at 3leleomb Rego/ to Mr. George Meek, of (i'uiltlibrd-street. Russell-vcilorei;eq. e ston Amelia, the youngest daughter of the late Samuel AV of Weymouth. h " Will On ThursdaT, the 16th inst., at Tottenham Chloe : loiter Rivaz, Esq.. oh Stamford-hill, to Wilhelmina, stiO,a,tl of Lewis Burnand, Eaq., of Hanger's-lane. __________,....---'" DIElf.). Jr. On nn t t il l l t ie e ,cl,l l 3 s thn t est h inias in yt. s : t a ., tth a te t nig h zil i te s itiel h l o idl u s. 3 grt. e : i e t an i tie C Ar i i r z e;ce t s n.g t T e e r oi - ni pi nig : ri ' frritte;. John Money l'Anson, aged 48. , r , rs tred 67 " Thomas Robert, eldest son of Mr. Peter Davis, of D Is road. _.........00 Printed anti Published fox the PrtoPtirErmts , 1t 0 0. OFFICV, No- 1 1 2 , Strand, by J. B. CAPOI^-,„